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(Photo by Erich Schlegel/Getty Images)

The Other Texas Healthcare Crisis

One-sixth of the state’s 5.4 million reproductive-age women are now without access to legal abortion.
By Nina Burleigh
Former senator Norm Coleman, head of an influential super-PAC, is now lobbying for Saudi Arabia. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Stop Taking Saudi Money, Washington

Petro-dollars from superrich Gulf States infect think tanks, lobbyists, academics—and basic American principles.
By Nina Burleigh
Despite powerful evidence pointing to another killer, Italian prosecutors have clung to their case against Amanda Knox, shown here with one of her lawyers in 2011. (Photo by Stephen Brashear/Getty Images)

Like So Many American Black Men, Amanda Knox’s Crime Was Being an Outsider

Outliers, strangers, minorities and people with no access to the levers of power can go from merely suspicious to convicted fast when a crime occurs, anywhere.
By Nina Burleigh
Anti-abortion and pro-choice demonstrators argue in front of the Supreme Court during the March for Life January 24, 2011 in Washington, DC.

The 40 Years War: Decades After Roe v. Wade, Abortion is Still a Battleground

By Nina Burleigh

The Doom Boom: The End Is Not Near. Can We Fix Up the Place?

By Nina Burleigh
Illustration by Ed Johnson.

Appoint a Gun Czar Now, Mr. President

By Nina Burleigh
Cadets in prayer at West Point. (Getty)

Backward Christian Soldiers: Jesus Not Only Saves, He Shoots

By Nina Burleigh

Her Pen, His Sword: Broadwell Is Not the Only Female Journalist to Seduce a Subject

By Nina Burleigh
Chasing Ice

‘Ice’ Storm: New Doc Shows How Swelling Oceans Threaten to Swallow Manhattan Altogether

By Nina Burleigh

Let’s Face It, Ladies: Obama’s Just Not That Into Us

By Nina Burleigh
Junot Diaz.

Junot Díaz Is #WINNING: The Author Collects Awards Like His Characters Bag Women

By Nina Burleigh
(Illustration by Brian Taylor)

Sh*t My Mom Says: New Book Lets Mothers in on the Joke of TV and Movies’ Feckless Fathers

By Nina Burleigh
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